Courage:
RCMP Staff Sgt. Kent MacNeill
Giving back when no one's watching:
Lyn Hall (winter jackets)
Giving back in a time of crisis:
Prince George residents (Cariboo wildfire evacuation)
Politics:
Bill C-211 (national framework for PTSD),
Justin Trudeau LGBTQ apology
Standing up for what's right:
#metoo
Lindsay Shepherd
Colin Kaepernick
Never quitting:
New England Patriots, Super Bowl 51
Thanks for all you did:
Janet Bigelow
Robin Fairservice
Gord Downie
Tom Petty
Walter Becker
Malcolm Young
Chris Cornell
Thanks for all you do:
Dolly Hilton (Nechako Rotary)
Marnie Hamagami (Yellowhead Rotary)
Ross Birchall (Downtown Rotary)
Toombs family (Operation Red Nose)
Teresa Saunders, Darrell Hubbell (Community Foundation)
Shirley Gratton (Festival of Trees)
Matthew Hill (soup bus)
Selen Alpay (everything)
Miss seeing you:
Samantha Wright Allen
250News
150 Brunswick St.
Writers:
Todd Whitcombe
Tracy Summerville
Nathan Giede
Sean Farrell
Gerry Chidiac
Megan Kuklis
Kathy Nadalin
Kathi Travers
Dave Fuller
Mark Ryan
Jos Van Hage
Rob Shaw
Les Leyne
Andrew Coyne
Christie Blatchford
Scott Gilmore
Paul Wells
Voices on the air:
Darren Coogan
Kev Cotter
Robert Doane
Rosemary Barton
Angela Sterritt
Richard Zussman
Don Lemon
Tara Setmayer
Ana Navarro
Rick Wilson
Symone Sanders
Van Jones
Shannon Sharpe
Jemele Hill
On the other side of the fence:
Andrea Johnson
Peter James
Matt Wood
Rob Van Adrichem
Steve Raper
Eryn Collins
Athletes:
Meryeta O'Dine
Jared Young
Myles Mattila
Justin Hampole
Team:
Cariboo Cougars (Telus Cup)
Theatre:
Jake's Gift - Theatre Northwest, Feels Like The First Time/A Thousand Years - Theatre Northwest (Oct. 7)
Visual Art:
Carla Joseph, Cher French
Concerts:
Tool (Vancouver - father/daughter road trip)
Foreigner/Honeymoon Suite
Bob Dylan
Songs:
Heathens - Twenty One Pilots
Up All Night - Beck
Bodak Yellow - Cardi B.
The Man - The Killers
The Sky Is A Neighbourhood - Foo Fighters
The Doomed - A Perfect Circle
DNA - Kendrick Lamar
I Could Have Told You - Bob Dylan
Sorrow (Live) - David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii
Starboy - The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk
Sit Next To Me - Foster The People
Movies:
Long Time Running
Wonder Woman
Logan
TV:
Riverdale
Black Mirror
Stranger Things
The Vietnam War
The Story of Us
Books:
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage - Phillip Pullman
Secret Path - Gord Downie/Jeff Lemire
Roughneck - Jeff Lemire
The Death of Expertise - Tom Nichols
Game Change - Ken Dryden
Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
Tears We Cannot Stop - Michael Eric Dyson
The First White President - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs - Lisa Randall
The Once and Future Liberal - Mark Lilla
-- Editor-in-chief Neil Godbout